President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

This is a great idea and more conferences should adopt it

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

Context: $9 billion is more than the entire annual NSF budget allocated for all science research in the US. If the NSF budget had actually been disbursed this year (it has not). www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

We're delighted to announce Sarah Sanderson (McGill University) as the winner of the 2025 Louis Bernatchez Memorial Prize for the best student-led paper in Evolutionary Applications! Congratulations, @sarahsanderson.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

Incredible stuff, here

88 in southern Maine today, 24° above average. The lakes are turning over early this year, folks

If I had more confidence in university administrators, I would think this sort of thing would really drive home the point to them that they can’t trust AI to do the jobs of people.

The thing to remember about Dr. Haidt’s commencement speech is that over 1/2 of US college students now study in states governed by academic censorship laws + the bills that created that level of censorship repeatedly cite the key terms, arguments, and narratives that Haidt popularized as support.

If you're at #CSEE2026 this week, come learn about how temperature anomalies affect body condition, and how body condition affects survival in Arctic charr. Fish 4 session at 8:45 on Wednesday morning ☕ 🐟

Here we have a straightforward failure to understand that high Type II Error (false negative) rates can coexist with high Type I Error (false positive) rates.

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.

I'm on NPR "All Things Considered" today talking about the near-extinction of the Devils Hole pupfish this past year and the federal agency management chaos that ensued! 🐟😈🕳️ www.npr.org/2026/05/07/n...

For those who reached out asking how to help: This gofundme is specifically for graduate students who lost personal items, computers, tablets, etc. in the fire. We were told that these items are not retrievable or reimbursable -an added burden for students during a devastating time. Plz share 🌊💙

"Sunfish, eels, etc." is such a funny way to summarize 96% of living fish species

Ecological speciation models suggest that genetic ecol differences between populations generate reproductive isolation on secondary contact. This is rarely tested experimentally in fully natural settings. @lucaseckert.bsky.social does this in a new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/N

Phillie Phanatic hula popper when?

Most Americans don't know how US conservation is funded. Spoiler: not through general taxes or donations. It’s a hidden user pay loop funded by hunters & anglers. It def works, but also has issues & is starting to fray. New Tangled Nature post! 👇🦆🎣🦌🏞️ tnature.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in #Ecology and #Evolution #science #scienceSky #evoSky www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Ongoing DFO cuts to the Genomics Program and across the organization further compromise the capacity to conduct critical research evaluating the impacts of cumulative stressors and pathogens on salmon survival and to aid in the conservation of imperiled stocks 🧪🌎🌐🦑🐟 thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Bring back extremely short papers where you just ask one question and give one answer

Do chameleons evolve to match their habitats? Petford et al. reveal morphological convergence in Bradypodion lineages, suggesting habitat, not ancestry, drives morphology. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Deeply unsettling

Wooo! bsky.app/profile/reps...

Landscape time 🌍

The ESA has ~ +60% popularity, with even a large majority of support of republicans. Those are numbers that could scare vulnerable house republicans if they get enough phone calls that it becomes clear that people have noticed this vote doi.org/10.1111/conl...

Are you a graduate student who is a member of ASIH and studying fishy things? Looking for research funds? Consider applying to the Raney Fund, which awards up to $1,000 for research, field or travel purposes. The deadline to apply is April 30th! More info here: www.asih.org/awards/raney...

I am again asking people to pay attention to what has happened to our National Science Foundation and by extension thousands of researchers across the country. The devastation is ongoing and worthy of continued outcry to officials and journalists. 🧪

This is so cool, and with some great illustrations, too!

The seals and sea lions are able to eat so many salmon because Bonneville Dam significantly slows their migration upstream. This is a problem we created, killing the seals and sea lions won’t make food cheaper, and Marie doesn’t care about salmon.

First time The Onion has lied to me. What a disappointment. Writing a letter to the editor posthaste

One of the former pastors of the protestant church I went to as a kid – who is now a bishop and studiously avoids talking about politics in his capacity as clergy – just posted “Trump is a false prophet who must be condemned” on facebook. So I don’t think this line is gonna fly

Food web interactions - small #sticklebacks with problems feeding on spiny water flea #Bythotrephes #fish #plankton

Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪

HEY SCOTT I NOTICED YOU DON’T HAVE GILLS

At a glance, 2599 recipients - I think the highest total ever? And quite a few in the Life Sciences, which I know was a concern for many - Evolutionary Biology had twice as many recipients (38) as last year (19).

Dear Friends, Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest. Deadline is April 17. drawdown.org/careers/clim...

What happens *after* enemy release? In a new paper, we present 7 years of infection & immune trait dynamics in 16 lake populations of stickleback. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... This is definitely the longest-scale study I've done in my career, I'm very excited to see it out. 1/6

What is the deep sea “big flat eye” fitness peak all about?

After disappearing from the Milwaukee River in the early 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss, the new discovery of an adult sturgeon 20 miles upstream from Lake Michigan is a milestone in a massive restoration project that’s been underway for 20 years www.wuwm.com/lake-sturgeo...

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

Continental-scale evidence that emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds, thus freshwater conservation offers considerable co-benefits to terrestrial ecosystems! A fun collaboration w/ postdoc @cschuerings.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The NIH can do great stuff when we give it money

The Academy of Natural Sciences ( @acadnatsci), the oldest & 1st nat. hist. museum in North America, is under threat! Sign petition at bit.ly/save-academy to tell president of @drexeluniv to fund one of the most important educational & research institutions in the world! @geosociety.bsky.social

And furthermore, The Hoover Institution must be destroyed.

Hey faculty search committees, please standardize your job applications and be more clear about what you want. The process of customizing dozens of applications to suit slightly different requirements makes it more likely you're reading AI generated research and teaching statements. #academicsky

If anyone on here works at one of the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed and you want to tell me about your work there and why it's important, reach out: [email protected]

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...